Encounter Books: 253 books
by Stephen Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In his first nine months in office Barack Obama has pursued the most aggressive government expansionist agenda since Franklin Roosevelt’s new deal was launched in 1933. White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel summarized the Obama first-year game plan best: An economic crisis is a terrible thing to...
Bottleneckers
Gaming the Government for Power and Private Profit
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Bottlenecker (n): a person who advocates for the creation or perpetuation of government regulation, particularly an occupational license, to restrict entry into his or her occupation, thereby accruing an economic advantage without providing a benefit to consumers.The Left, Right, and Center all hate...
Who Needs the Fed?
What Taylor Swift, Uber, and Robots Tell Us About Money, Credit, and Why We Should Abolish America's Central Bank
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The Federal Reserve is one of the most disliked entities in the United States at present, right alongside the IRS. Americans despise the Fed, but they’re also generally a bit confused as to why they distrust our central bank.
Their animus is reasonable, though, because the Fed’s most famous...
The Human Factor
Inside the CIA's Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
George W. Bush’s presidency was poisoned by a lack of human source intelligence on 9/11, Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. Carter was humiliated by the hostage crisis in Iran. The Bay of Pigs was President Kennedy’s greatest blunder. Vietnam ended the Johnson presidency and Korea ended Truman’s....
Merchants of Despair
Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
There was a time when humanity looked in the mirror and saw something precious, worth protecting and fighting for-indeed, worth liberating. But now we are beset on all sides by propaganda promoting a radically different viewpoint. According to this idea, human beings are a cancer upon the Earth, a...
by Daniel DiSalvo
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Government-workers unions have been political juggernauts in the U.S. since the unseen collective-bargaining-rights revolution of the 1960s and ’70s. These unions are different and more powerful than those that battle owners and managers in the private sector. To advance their interests, unions in...
Mexifornia
A State of Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Victor Davis Hanson locates the cause of our immigration quagmire in the opportunistic coalition that stymies immigration reform and, even worse, stifles any honest discussion of the present crisis. Conservative corporations, contractors and agribusiness demand cheap wage labor from Mexico, whatever...
Gray Lady Down
What the Decline and Fall of the New York Times Means for America
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
The New York Times was once considered the gold standard in American journalism and the most trusted news organization in America. Today, it is generally understood to be a vehicle for politically correct ideologies, tattered liberal pieties, and a repeated victim of journalistic scandal and institutional...
All Falling Faiths
Reflections on the Promise and Failure of the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
In this warm and intimate memoir Judge Wilkinson delivers a chilling message. The 1960s inflicted enormous damage on our country; even at this very hour we see the decade’s imprint in so much of what we say and do. The chapters reveal the harm done to the true meaning of education, to our capacity...
by Victor Davis Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In this revealing broadside, Victor Davis Hanson explains how President Obama has imprinted his domestic ideology of victimhood onto a therapeutic, Carter-inspired foreign policy. In Obama’s vision, the United State renounces its role as a defender of the postwar order and instead becomes an agent...
The New Vichy Syndrome
Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Western Europe is in a strangely neurotic condition of being smug and terrified at the same time. On the one hand, Europeans believe they have at last created an ideal social and political system in which man can live comfortably. In many ways, things have never been better on the old continent. On the...
Camelot and the Cultural Revolution
How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
James Piereson examines the bizarre aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination: Why in the years after the assassination did the American Left become preoccupied with conspiratorial thinking? How and why was Kennedy transformed in death into a liberal icon and a martyr for civil rights? In what way...
Surviving Hell
A POWS Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
On April 19, 1967, Air Force Colonel Leo Thorsness was on a mission over North Vietnam when his wingman was shot down by an enemy MiG, which then lined up for a gunnery pass on the two American pilots who had bailed out. Although his F 105 was not designed for aerial combat, Thorsness engaged the MiG...
Black April
The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably America’s worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th Century. Yet a complete understanding of the endgame-from the 27 January 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords to South Vietnam’s surrender on 30 April 1975-has eluded us.Black April addresses that deficit....